Cryptical Envelopment Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Not Jeremy Nimmo 

Cover art for Cryptical Envelopment lyrics by Grateful Dead

This one day I was down in San Fran, good sunny day. Yeah, well, anyway, when I heard the Cryp coming to, I was just sitting there. But then I got up, started feeling it. Like, you know the way you is when you're at a Dead show? So any way, Ann Coulter was right there! I'm not shitting you man, she's too skinny for my tastes, I like plus-sized woman. Yeah, and then I was like, any way, I only realized this years later if you get my drift. I think Cryptical Envelopment is about just watching, not doing anything, like SM or someone B&Ding you, like AC, in her car boot baby got no back.

Pretty sure the song is about the process of ego death that must come before the transcendental journey. "The Psychedelic Experience", the guidebook for tripping, was very popular and well regarded back then.

Here's the gist of the book (from Wikipedia):

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a Tibetan Buddhist text that was written as a guide for navigating the process of death, the bardo and rebirth. In The Psychedelic Experience the authors discuss the Tibetan Book of the Deadand use the process of death and rebirth presented in it as a metaphor for the experience of...